The Museum of the City of New York is a repository of exhibits and an art gallery dedicated to the history and evolution of the city. Everything relevant to New York City is showcased at the museum, including its buildings, streets, sights, sounds, neighborhoods, people and cultures that give the city its colorful exuberance.
The Museum of the City of New York forms part of Manhattan’s museum mile and is housed in a Neo Georgian style brick and limestone building. The design was by architect, Joseph J. Freedlander and was constructed between 1928 and 1930. A new glass Pavilion Gallery was added to the old building in 2008.
Exhibits at the museum include drawings, paintings and prints of New York City, from the first Dutch settlements till the present. There are also special marine, military, fire and police collections dedicated to civic and armed services that were involved in the protection of the citizens and their property. The museum has a comprehensive photograph collection of the city of New York and a section devoted to the destroyed World Trade Center. There are also re-created rooms from the houses of prominent citizens. A rare object found at the museum is the chair of Sarah Repelje who was the first European child born in New Amsterdam that later became New York City.
The Museum of the city of New York is one of the few museums that stay open on Mondays. In addition to historical exhibits and works of art, it offers visitors a fascinating multimedia portrait of the city that gives an overview of the people who shaped it in the course of history.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is well known not only for its collection of contemporary art but also for the architectural splendor of its building. The museum has a vast collection of permanent modern art collections and always runs temporary exhibitions featuring innovative and interesting modern art displays. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum houses the art collection of its founder and his art adviser, German artist Hilda Rebay. In 1939, they opened the first museum displaying works of art in rented premises located in 24, East Fifty- Fourth Street. The number of exhibits outgrew the building and renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright was asked to design a suitable structure to house the collections. This was the last of Wright’s major plans and it took 15 years before he could create the architectural concept of the building. The design was criticized at first because it did not synchronize with the box like buildings located nearby. The appearance of the structure is like a ribbon curled around a cylinder shaped base. The museum opened in 1959 after the deaths of Guggenheim and Wright. Today, it has become one of the architectural icons of New York City. The museum features works of modern and post modernist artists including Picasso, Rudolf Bauer, Vincent van Gogh, Hilla Rebay, Paul Klee, Amadeo Modigliani and Fernand Leger. There are also modernist sculptures, rock displays, dollar displays and a range of exhibits to fascinate lovers of Contemporary Art.

Popularly known as the, ‘Met’, this museum has one of the largest art collections in the world. The exhibits consist of collections acquisitions and donations from collectors and benefactors with a common goal to bring art to the American people. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a repository of art work from all over the world and from every age in history. It has collections from prehistoric ages to recent times. It was founded in 1870 by a group of citizens including artists, financiers, businessmen and art collectors. The museum occupies the major part of the Museum Mile in Manhattan. The nineteen departments at the Met are repositories of over 2 million exhibits. It also has a large private collection of American banker, Robert Lehman, one of the largest collections of musical instruments in the world, a collection of costumes and accessories by well known designers and over 20,000 photographs. The Thomas J Watson library within the museum has a collection of books related to the History of Art, exhibition catalogues and auction sale publications. The Met also has a branch museum at The Cloisters, devoted to medieval European art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers free guided tours for visitors. The roof garden offers a spectacular view of Central Park and New York City.

The Hayden Planetarium is one part of the Rose Center for Earth and Space in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The aim of the planetarium is to give the public a, ‘lively and sincere appreciation of the magnitude of the universe and for the wonderful things that are daily occurring in the universe.’
Architects Trowbridge and Livingston designed the Hayden Planetarium and it opened its doors in 1935. The construction was funded by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and a wealthy banker, Charles Hayden. The original structure was demolished in 1997 and a new structure designed by James Polshek housing both the Rose Center for earth and Space and the Hayden Planetarium opened in the year 2000.
The top half of the planetarium has a customized Zeiss Mark IX projector with a digital dome projector system. The system shows a 3D image of the universe based on real time images sent by a Silicon Graphics Supercomputer. In the lower half, visitors follow the Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn cosmic pathway to learn about the beginning of time and space by experiencing the Big Bang and other stages of the evolution of the universe through multisensory special effects.

From the date of its institution, the American Museum of Natural History has made cutting edge anthropological and natural history information available to the public. It is one of the largest and best known natural history repositories in the world.
The American Museum of Natural History is located across Central Park and is also surrounded by a garden like landscape. Calvert Vaux and J Wrey Mould designed the first structure in 1877 in Victorian Gothic style. Later the South Range building by J Cleveland Cady in neo Romanesque style clad in rusticated brownstone was added.
25 interconnected buildings make up the museum with 46 halls displaying permanent exhibits. It has in house research laboratories and one of the finest natural history libraries in the world. Only a few of the 36 million exhibits are displayed at a given time. Well known permanent exhibits include Hall of the Saurischian Dinosaurs, that of the Ortnithscian Dinosaurs, halls dedicated to ocean Life, biodiversity, minerals, African mammals, artifacts of the Native American people and the events in 13 billion years of cosmic evolution.
The museum offers daily guided tours by volunteers around the many exhibits and arranges private tours for visitors.

This technology and entertainment museum offers an interactive trip through the world of media for visitors of all ages. It forms part of the Sony Tower that was formerly the AT&T building.
The Sony Wonder Technology Lab occupies four floors of the Sony Tower. It replaced Wonderquest, a previous technological museum by AT&T. The Lab has a 73 seat high definition theater that can be rented separately for events and shows. It is a popular place of visit for parents and children A Sony robot provides entertainment to children waiting in the long queues that wait to enter the lab.
Interesting rooms inside the lab include the image lab where children are encouraged to play with pictures and the audio lab where children can manipulate sounds in a music piece. In one room children can play with medical instruments, perform surgeries and go down a mock esophagus. There is also an option where children can work with other kids to produce an entertainment show. In the room devoted to the Sony Playstation, children can sit at monitors and play games, make a movie or play with music.
Children between the ages of 8 and 14 will get an education through entertainment at this unique museum dedicated to media and technology.

Well known as the most influential museum of modern art in the world, this museum is a storehouse of the finest Western modern masterpieces in the world. It also has an impressive library with over 300,000 books.
In 1929, three wealthy ladies rented space in the Heckscher Building in 5th avenue and established the first Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Later, the husband of Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller, one of the ladies, donated the land and gave the funds to build the present structure. Her sons commissioned landscape architect Philip Johnson to redesign the area around the museum as the Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden in honor of their mother.
Today, the museum has the largest collection of artwork from the year 1880 to the present. It has works of architecture, sculpture including a valuable sculpture of a goat by Picasso in the patio, drawings, paintings, photography, prints and electronic media depictions. Works of great modernist masters like Van Gogh, Matisse and Picasso are displayed in its vast halls.
The Museum of Modern Art also holds temporary exhibitions of innovative art styles and showcases some of the most revolutionary art expressions of our time.